

UX Roundup: Product Simplification | Big Text Boxes | Reporting UX Research | UX Jobs | New/Old UX
Simplifying product lines saves money | Anchor users’ expectations for how much to write by making text entry boxes bigger | Reporting on UX

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 15, 20246 min read


UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact
Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 4, 20236 min read


UX Roundup: OpenAI Announcements | GitHub AI Keynote | Jakob’s Razor for UX | Midjourney Beta
UX hot take on OpenAI’s keynote announcements | Jakob’s Razor: don’t overcomplicate matters and start with a qualitative user test w 5 users

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 13, 20239 min read


UX News: Winning UX Tools | Error Messages | Showing Payment Options | Virtual Girlfriend
Award-Winning AI-Enabled UX Design & Research Tools You Need to Try | Flow chart for better error messages | Alternate payment options

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 18, 20237 min read


Replication Crisis in Website Analytics: The Trouble with UX Stats
Many analytics results are wrong. Better tests will be more expensive and identify fewer design winners. This lowers ROI from analytics.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 15, 20239 min read


UX News: Discount Envy | AI for All | GUI Toggle Design | Tradeshow User Research | Lightweight UI
Coupon-code fields make ecommerce shoppers green with discount envy | Guidelines for toggle switch design | User research at tradeshows

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 11, 20238 min read


UX News Roundup for August 28
UX News Roundup: A collection of recommended links with comments.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 28, 20235 min read


Why and How to Execute UX (Part 2 of 2 of Jakob Nielsen’s UX Basics Article)
The definitive article on user experience, delineating the reasons for implementing UX and the main methods to do so. (Part 2 of 2)

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 21, 202312 min read


Apple Vision Pro for Eyetracking Studies
Compelling (if niche) application for Apple Vision Pro: Eyetracking in user research.

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 8, 20232 min read
